Data manipulation is at the heart of computation, and a system is said to be Turing-complete if it can be configured to manipulate data in a way that makes implementing arbitrary computation possible.

George Mallory, a famous English mountaineer, once suggested that it was of no use to climb mountains. Instead, he posited, the only reason to climb a mountain is because it is there. Likewise, when ...

Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas and collaborators have shown that using only links and rotary joints a Turing-complete computational system can be created. A version of this design could be built using ...

Although the Script language in Bitcoin transactions is not Turing Complete (NTC), Ethereum's Solidity programming language is Turing Complete (TC). The Taproot upgrade of Bitcoin in November 2021 ...